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The Map & Travel

How the 1000×1000 world works — distances, march times and barbarian farms.

The world is a 1000×1000 grid of tiles. Every village — yours, your enemies' and the barbarians' — sits on one tile, and everything you send anywhere marches across that grid in real time.

Distance and travel time

Distance is measured in a straight line between the two tiles. An army always marches at the speed of its SLOWEST unit (minutes per field), divided by the world speed — so a lone raider is fast, but strap a ram to the same army and everyone slows to the ram's pace.

Base values at world speed ×1 (HQ / Barracks level 1). Faster worlds divide build, recruit and travel times — and multiply production.
TroopSpeed (min/field)Class
Spearman20 minInfantry
Axeman20 minInfantry
Swordsman24 minInfantry
Ram33 minInfantry
Catapult33 minInfantry
Scout10 minCavalry
Light Cavalry11 minCavalry
Heavy Cavalry12 minCavalry
Warlord38 minInfantry
Champion11 minInfantry
Send slow siege and fast raiders as separate commands when timing doesn't matter — mixing them makes the whole army crawl.

Reading the map

The map is divided into continent sectors named like K55 — each K-sector is a 100×100 block of tiles, so the name alone tells you roughly where a village lives. Click any tile to act on it: attack, scout or send support straight from the map.

Every command you send shows a live ETA, and anything heading at you is flagged in the HUD the moment it launches — incoming attacks are never a surprise to a player who's looking.

Barbarian villages

Barbarian villages are neutral farms scattered across the map — they never attack back, ever. They come in 4 tiers: 40% are completely undefended, 30% are lightly held (about a dozen spears), 20% are medium (a small garrison behind wall 1), and 10% are heavy (a real garrison behind wall 3). The richer the tier, the more loot it carries.

ShareGarrisonWallLoot pool
40%1,000
30%12 Spearman1,620
20%40 Spearman + 20 Swordsman12,500
10%90 Spearman + 45 Swordsman + 20 Axeman34,000
Scout a barbarian village once before your first hit — barbarians keep no scouts, so the report is free and complete, and you'll know exactly which tier you're farming.